Scott Higgins
Charles W. Fries Professor of Film Studies
Professor of Film Studies
Center for Film Studies, 156860-685-3176
Chair, Film Studies
Director, College of Film and the Moving Image
Curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives
BA Oakland UniversityMA Univ of Wisconsin Madison
PHD Univ of Wisconsin Madison
Scott Higgins
Higgins teaches courses about film history, genre, and aesthetics. His books include Harnessing the Rainbow: Technicolor Aesthetics in the 1930s, Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, and Matinee Melodrama: Playing with Formula in the Sound Serial. He offered the first ever Massive Open Online Course in film, and maintains the blog Thinking Cinematically.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Monday 9:30 - 12:30
Courses
Fall 2018
FILM 300 - 01
First Things Film
FILM 307 - 01
The Language of Hollywood
FILM 324 - 01
Visual Storytelling
FILM 454 - 01
Screenwriting
Spring 2019
FILM 342 - 01
Cinema of Adventure and Action
FILM 454 - 01
Screenwriting